Thursday, April 20, 2006

MapQuest Demystified. Sort Of.

The New Yorker, of all places, has a (typically long) article on the history of automobile travel maps down through the decades from Rand McNally to MapQuest.

The piece is a good read and gooder than MapQuest, which in my experience can be maddenly unhelpful. How unhelpful? I've punched in requests for directions from Point A to Point B when I know full well the best routes (say from Kiko's House to the Jersey shore) and MapQuest has taken me so far out of my way as to be laughable.

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Shaun Mullen was born to blog. It just took a few years for the medium to catch up to the messenger. Over a long career with newspapers, this award-winning editor and reporter covered the Vietnam War, O.J. Simpson trials, Clinton impeachment circus and coming of Osama bin Laden, among many other big stories. Mullen was a five-time Pulitzer Prize nominee and has covered 12 presidential campaigns. He is the author of "The Bottom of the Fox: A True Story of Love, Devotion & Cold-Blooded Murder" (2010) and "There's A House In The Land: A Tale of the 1970s" (2014). Both books are available for sale online in trade paperback and Kindle editions. Much of Mullen's work is archived and can be accessed online in the Shaun D. Mullen Journalism Papers in Special Collections at the University of Delaware Library.